From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759513AbZKKWiw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:38:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759452AbZKKWiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:38:50 -0500 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:57436 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759320AbZKKWit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:38:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:39:07 -0800 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: Andrew Morton Cc: mtk.manpages@googlemail.com, arnd@arndb.de, Containers , Nathan Lynch , matthltc@suka.localdomain, "Eric W. Biederman" , hpa@zytor.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , roland@redhat.com, Pavel Emelyanov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [v12][PATCH 2/9] Have alloc_pidmap() return actual error code Message-ID: <20091111223907.GC24988@suka> References: <20091111043440.GA9377@suka> <20091111044313.GB11393@suka> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091111044313.GB11393@suka> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: LKML Sukadev Bhattiprolu [sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote: | | Subject: [v12][PATCH 2/9] Have alloc_pidmap() return actual error code | | alloc_pidmap() can fail either because all pid numbers are in use or | because memory allocation failed. With support for setting a specific | pid number, alloc_pidmap() would also fail if either the given pid | number is invalid or in use. | | Rather than have callers assume -ENOMEM, have alloc_pidmap() return | the actual error. | | Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu | Acked-by: Serge Hallyn | Reviewed-by: Oren Laadan | --- | kernel/fork.c | 5 +++-- | kernel/pid.c | 14 +++++++++----- | 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) | | diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c | index 4c20fff..93626b2 100644 | --- a/kernel/fork.c | +++ b/kernel/fork.c | @@ -1156,10 +1156,11 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, | goto bad_fork_cleanup_io; | | if (pid != &init_struct_pid) { | - retval = -ENOMEM; | pid = alloc_pid(p->nsproxy->pid_ns); | - if (!pid) | + if (IS_ERR(pid)) { | + retval = PTR_ERR(pid); | goto bad_fork_cleanup_io; | + } | | if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) { | retval = pid_ns_prepare_proc(p->nsproxy->pid_ns); | diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c | index 7d4bb6e..c4d9914 100644 | --- a/kernel/pid.c | +++ b/kernel/pid.c | @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int alloc_pidmap_page(struct pidmap *map) | static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) | { | int i, offset, max_scan, pid, last = pid_ns->last_pid; | - int rc; | + int rc = -EAGAIN; | struct pidmap *map; | | pid = last + 1; | @@ -189,12 +189,14 @@ static int alloc_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) | } else { | map = &pid_ns->pidmap[0]; | offset = RESERVED_PIDS; | - if (unlikely(last == offset)) | + if (unlikely(last == offset)) { | + rc = -EAGAIN; | break; | + } | } | pid = mk_pid(pid_ns, map, offset); | } | - return -1; | + return rc; | } | | int next_pidmap(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int last) | @@ -263,8 +265,10 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns) | struct upid *upid; | | pid = kmem_cache_alloc(ns->pid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); | - if (!pid) | + if (!pid) { | + pid = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); | goto out; | + } | | tmp = ns; | for (i = ns->level; i >= 0; i--) { | @@ -299,7 +303,7 @@ out_free: | free_pidmap(pid->numbers + i); | | kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid); | - pid = NULL; | + pid = ERR_PTR(nr); | goto out; | } | | -- | 1.6.0.4 | | _______________________________________________ | Containers mailing list | Containers@lists.linux-foundation.org | https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers